What's the highest form of art ?

kirk.

For me it's probably poetry

The Epic Novel series. Think Lord of the rings or the Expanse

Edit. Also quite partial to the Renaissance nudie pics

kirk.

I'm thinking maths probably kinda hard to say

Whatever it is it should be brief

spindex

FromADistance

Deception....

Archeron

Burp singing

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118735345#Comment_118735345

That is good but you know

Brid Hegarty

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There's not a lot to it though. Assonance, alliteration, a bit of rhyming and that's about it. Anyone can do it really. No wonder it was being considered as one of the learning activities to do away with during the pandemic. I would say music is the highest form of art.

Brid Hegarty

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Except maths isn't art! Why should it be brief?

Manach

Architecture: being a society's public facing statement for the future. Comparing and contrasting the buildings of Rome and Medieval European cathredhals with modern buildings, the late Rodger Scruton lamented the fall from grace of this form of art.

goldenmick

Piss ARTist

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118735988#Comment_118735988

Beauty is brevity

What's the point of saying more than you have to

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Music certainly has a lot of practitioners that are high. But that's not the same thing.

In practice, as expressed in the form of 'song-writing' and popular music, I'd say music is more like a craft than an art form; minor variations on well-established themes is more than enough to satisfy the audience. Nothing high minded about it. Since it's so formulaic, there are few real demands on creativity. This is why young children can be accomplished musicians.

Not sure of the utility of high art/low art distinctions anyway. There is art that works for you and art that doesn't. No need to generalize. Art is a form of communication, not a form of competition.

kirk.

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Beauty isn't arguing

Donald Trump

Government artist.

Plenty of those around

(The lads that draw the dole)

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Maths has aesthetic qualities.. elegance, proportion, style, saying a lot with a little. And at the top end, it requires creativity.

kirk.

Math is up there

I reckon it's a tossup between writing and maths

2 sides of the same coin really

kirk.

Sculpture and architecture is a good call

dasdog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibanLlREjTk

Gregor Samsa

Photography, for sure. About 384,400 km high.

clobber

Conartistry

Gant21

Drawing mickeys on back of cornflake boxes

thehairygrape

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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Paul Dirac.

I’m in the maths camp.

kirk.

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I read his book ' Principles of quantum mechanics ' ,for the crack years ago

I had no idea what he was talking about but that was kinda my point

buckwheat

Quote from Eric Cantona which I wholeheartedly agree with

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity. 

Temptamperu

I believe its Don Conroy on the den back in the day

Tony EH

Painting.

Dance.

Larbre34

Those that have said architecture, are right.

It is man's most visible, most tactile, most interactive, most enduring legacy.

Tell me how

Just my take, but I would say that Maths isn't art. It's widely respected, and impressive, but it isn't art. It's a language to explain/understand the world we live in (and beyond it) and has to conform to various in order to be considered valid. But isn't something that is created purely from an artists imagination.

According to Google, there's 7 forms of art; Painting, Sculpture, Literature, Architecture, Cinema, Music, Theater. I'm surprised to see Architecture in there, I can understand it in that it is aesthetically pleasing, (but it's primary requirement is to conform to physical constraints and to achieve a particular functionality). If that deserves to be considered art, couldn't other mechanical forms such as car design for example?

I am also curious to see Cinema in there but not Poetry or Singing which I would consider artistic. Would be interested in how Art experts would define what exactly constitutes art and why some elements of artistic expression are considered as such and more aren't. Someone mentioned Dance also which I would consider art.

Tell me how

Personally, my favourite form of art is Theatre, but I don't know if I would say that that means I think that it is the highest form.. I love how there is so much that can influence how any individual show and how it is perceived. The playwright's story, the directors intent, the skillset of the actors and the audiences perception (and engagement) can all influence how any given show is experienced and even watching the same group perform the same play on successive occasions, you can focus on different things entirely and therefore experience it in a different way. One other thing I like about theatre is that the observer can choose what to focus on, in cinema, the director is telling you what to focus on but in a theatre, you can decide to watch the facial expressions or movement of a character who is effectively only an extra in any given moment and yet experience that scene in a different way because of it.

I know the OP selected poetry as possibly being the highest form, maybe it is, I find it incredibly subjective (maybe that is what might make it a contender to be the highest form). Again, how a piece is delivered can significantly impact the experience. I always read Seamus Heaney's 'Mid-term Break' in a slow manner and it resonated with me in a particular way. But then I saw a video of him doing a reading of it and he read it at a quite high tempo which I found changed by perception of the poem significantly. I think with poetry there is much less clarity on what the original creator was trying to convey than with other forms of art and so I personally can't rate it as the highest form because of the interpretation that others have put on it.